Max is a Category 1 storm with maximum sustained winds of around
80 mph. It's expected to strengthen slightly before making
landfall sometime tonight. A hurricane warning has been issued
for an area that includes popular resort spots like Zihuatanejo
and Acapulco.

The hurricane could produce life-threatening flooding due to
torrential rains in Guerrero and Oaxaca, along with dangerous
winds and destructive coastal storm-surge flooding.

Since Max is a Pacific storm, it's not counted as part of the
already extremely
active Atlantic hurricane season. (The Atlantic has seen six
hurricanes so far this year, including Hurricanes Katia, Harvey,
and Irma.) The Atlantic and Pacific have separate naming
schedules, so the next tropical storm to form in the Atlantic
will be named Lee. In the Pacific, another tropical storm - Norma
- has formed west of Max, and seems to be headed north toward the
Baja peninsula.

Max poses yet another imminent danger to Mexico, which is still
trying to recover after an 8.2-magnitude quake on September 8
caused destruction and
killed at least 96 people.

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